To ask if you have any funny/crazy anaesthetic anecdotes?

[BritneyPeedOnALadybug]

Just before I went under for an operation I swore I heard a nurse mention a clown. I kept asking “what clown? What clown?” until I went under and the first thing I asked when I woke up was “where’s the clown?” I got told there was no clown.

“Why, has he gone home now?” I don’t even like clowns. Probably would have freaked out if I woke up and actually saw one.

I wasn't under any influence at the time, in my pre-med chat with my anaesthetist before my ELCS he was taking my history.

I had had brain surgery 10 years previous. Quite unusual for a teenager to have the condition I'd had and even more unusual to make a full recovery so he was very interested and asked me "where did you have it?"

To which I pointed to my head and said "in my brain...?"

He just looked at me for a second and said "which hospital did you have it at?"

'it' being the surgery of course 😂

@TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit that sounds bad hope you made a full recovery. I don't react very well to GA's make me feel sick and dizzy for days. Last one I had was to have a tooth taken out ( dentist had tried 4 times but couldn't numb the area) 2 min job. I was the first one in out of 8 , i took ages to come round . In the hospital bed hours later could hear the nurses talking about me ' yea she's still here' I thought they need the bed I need to go so I stood up but just fell backwards, my DH caught me. A nurse came over and admitted yes they did need the bed but as i had just nearly fainted they insisted on putting me in a wheelchair. So a 2 min op I was the first in last out and left in a wheelchair god I was embarrassed 😩

When I was a repellent little wastrel in my 20s, a popular catchphrase was "A runny fried egg, a gram of coke and a blowjob".

It's not polite to say this immediately after being extubated.

Thanks @pumpkinpie01, I've recovered as much as I'm going to. It was 3 years ago now, and obviously changed our lives forever, but we have many good and funny memories from our time in hospital (6 months!). And of course, we're lucky to be alive, so there's that

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

Age 8 I had an operation and bit the surgeon as he carried me off the operating table. Apparently telling him that he hadn't done it properly. Age about 14 my mum and I met him in the street and my mum proceeded to retell the story to him. If the ground could have opened up...

I woke up from a nasty wisdom tooth ga, crying for my daddy. I was most upset my husband was there instead.

@TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit gosh 6 months! But you made it and you're here 😀

Not quite anaesthetic but I was being wheeled up to the ward after a very difficult birth (of DS not me!) and I felt it was rude not to make conversation to the porters with me. Neither replied and to this day I don’t know if it was because they didn’t feel like chatting (it was about 1.00 am) or because I wasn’t making sense.

Midazolam and spinal and fentanyl for a op - triggered off some sort of weird reaction where I got very, very angry quickly .

I don’t remember much but told I threw things at the doctors, told them they were trying to kill me, oxygen was a poisonous gas, managed to snap SATs probe in half, all sorts, trying/failing to kick surgeon out the way . Came to being restrained (kindly) by 6 people . When they’d finally finished I vomited everywhere and then decided to try and jump off the bed - despite being totally numb from the waist down . Never seen a room of people move so fast .

Next time I needed a spinal (gynae again) - they gave me lots of morphine, no sedation and the lovely anaesthetist sat holding me the entire time, had her arm around me and holding my hand from the minute they started . Only took twenty minutes thankfully . She and my consultant then stayed with me through recovery, consultant even came round to my bed after and helped me into my pyjamas . Couldn’t have been more different to the first time !

Unfortunately some ten years later I was diagnosed with PTSD as a direct result of the first op - thankfully I’ve had a GA since as well and like the second op, everyone couldn’t have been more lovely, and very understanding .

... every verse I could remember of What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor, then spoke at length about it's importance as a marker of social mores in England

IWillWearTheGreenWillow I would have loved to hear that. I only know the first couple of verses and have always assumed it to be about alcohol-related impotence. Are you familiar with The Bad Shepherds' version of the song from which you take your name? It makes me laugh far more than it probably should.

My dd (11) is a veteran of multiple GAs and seems to enjoy the whole business. Generally when she has surgery she knows it's to make something better and is quite excited about it. The most memorable was a couple of years ago when she skipped down to anaesthetics and hopped happily up onto the bed. Always insists on holding her own mask (since the age of about three), and on this occasion giggled herself off to sleep. The anaesthetics team were quite impressed!

(Sadly that surgery did not go to plan and I had to explain to her in recovery six hours later that she did not in fact have a cochlear implant. But she's bounced back.)

Lifeasweknow it was indeed Africa, with the full on ' Doo-doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo' . Hysterical. He's a huge Stormzy/ AJTracey fan .

Bruno Mars came on after Toto and he got even louder, closing eyes and all sorts!